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Updated: June 29, 2025
For that flat out there," referring to a small, irregular patch of bouldery detritus, two or three acres in size, that had been deposited by Eaton Creek during some flood season, "that flat is large enough for a nice orange-grove, and the bank behind the cabin will do for a vineyard, and after watering my own trees and vines I will have some water left to sell to my neighbors below me, down the valley.
Inside the gate of the Kasbah one comes on more waste land and on other walls for all Moroccan towns are enclosed in circuit within circuit of battlemented masonry. Then, unexpectedly, a gate in one of the inner walls lets one into a tiled court enclosed in a traceried cloister and overlooking an orange-grove that rises out of a carpet of roses.
Shy and suspicious, his friends had difficulty in reassuring him of the peace-loving character of the settler, whose hut stood in the midst of an orange-grove.
The plan he had made held, in its simplicity, a larger measure of safety than any immediate, unconsidered course. John Woolfolk waited until she had had time to enter the orange-grove; then he followed, turning toward the beach.
"Couldn't we go into Papasito's garden one little minute, and take one sip from the fountain, and just one little walk round the orange-grove?" "It wouldn't be safe, my dear. There's no telling who may be lurking about. Mr. Fitzgerald charged me not to let you go out of doors. But you can go to my chamber, and take a last look of the house and garden."
ARABELLA. It was, Signora but let us retire to another apartment. LEONORA. You change color, Arabella you are false. ROSA. Oh, jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles! When he was still Fiesco; when in the orange-grove, where we damsels walked, I saw him a blooming Apollo, blending the manly beauty of Antinous!
"Would a farm have served?" she murmurs. "Would a plantation, an orange-grove, have satisfied the desperate young man? No, no; he must have his ranch! There was no charm could soothe his melancholy, and wring for him the public bosom, save mine."
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